Hairpin



M. LIEBERS.

HAIRPIN. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16, 1917.

1,342,822. Patnted June 8, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MEYER LIEBERS, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF ONE-HALF TO HERBERT COLE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, AND ONE-HALF T0 WILLIAM RUSSELL OSBORN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAIRPIN.

Application filed January 16, 1917. Serial No.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IVIEYER LIEBERS, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Yonkers, county of Vestchester, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hairpins, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to. hairpins.

It has for its object to provide a hairpin that will take hold of the hair and be securely retained in place.

It consists of the novel devices and combinations herein described and set forth.

In the drawings accompanying this specification, I have shown my device in its preferred form.

Referring to these drawings, Figures 1, 2 and 3 represent one form of my improvement, and Figs. 4 and 5 modifications thereof.

Fig. l is a face view of a hairpin embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1, viewed as shown by the arrows;

Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 38;

Figs. 4 and 5 are face views of modifications.

Referring to the form shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 8, my improved hairpin as there shown is provided with two outer members 1, 1, and with two innner members 2, 2.

For convenience of manufacture, the hairpin as there shown is made of a single piece of wire twisted and turned on itself to form the said members and their connecting parts, although it is not essential that my im- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, 1920.

provement be made of a single piece of wire, the members of the same, when not thus made of a single piece of wire twisted and bent on itself, being united in any suitable manner. The two inner members are made so as to have a part of each approaching the corresponding part of the other, to form a jaw, as at 3. The jaw thus formed by these two parts that approach each other acts as a spring clamp or jaw, permitting the passage of the hair between them, thus tending to retain the hairpin securely in place in the hair. In the form shown, the single wire is twisted at points 4:, 4, in order to form the inner members and to strengthen the hairpin.

IVhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A hairpin composed of a single piece of wire twisted and turned on itself to form two outer members and two inner members, the inner members approaching each other at a point to form a jaw.

2. The herein described hairpin comprising four principal parts, namely, a pair of main prongs and a pair of grippers all formed from a single piece of wire of uniform thickness, the gripper members lying within the crotch portion of the main prongs and having right and left twists of loop portions of the wire and the gripper members being spaced from each other at varying distances between their points and the crotch.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

MEYER LIEBERS. 

